Smart Shutter | Installing Processing For Android (With Pictures!)

This was a horrible (!) experience. I ran in to a slew of errors from the “Android Mode” menu not showing up, to having to adjust my PATH variable. Hopefully this guide helps somebody. Most of this is taken from this guide from processing, but a lot of the errors I ran into I resolved using various forums.

From there, you need to install the SDK as well as some pretty specific packages using the SDK manager. [Android SDK Platform-tools], [Android 2.3.3 (API 10) > SDK Platform] and [Google USB Driver under Extras]. My setup worked once I hit “deselect all”. Note the location of the SDK.

The install of Processing is very simple. Please note that the “modes” folder inside the folder is NOT the folder you manually install modes in. Please note the location of your sketchbook folder from the preferences inside of processing.

You must edit the “Path” variable by adding a semicolon with the location of your JDK’s bin folder.

And there you go. Everything should be working now.

In order to connect your phone and upload your apps to it, you need to set your phone to developer mode, which is very simple. Look here for instructions.

Hey! This post was written a long time ago, but I'm leaving it up on the off-chance it may help someone, but proceed with caution. It may not be a good idea to blindly integrate this code or work into your project, but instead use it as a starting point.